I’m the Innovation Scientist of the Center for Astrophysics and formerly the American Astronomical Society. I help other astronomers do research better and faster. You can find out more on my About Me page, and you can find me on Mastodon as @pkgw@mastodon.world or over email at peter@newton.cx.

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Latest post:

DASCH Data are Now Queryable In VO Tools

Earlier this week, Markus Demleitner let me know that he launched a project whose development we’ve been discussing for the past six months or so: DASCH data are now available in the Virtual Observatory!

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Recently:

A Modest Proposal for How to Do Digital Conference “Posters”
A Tool and Workflow for Radio Astronomical “Peeling”
The xz Backdoor and Release Automation
DASCH Scanning is Complete — What’s Next?